Every day I wander further into a madness. I personally don't think I'm mad at all, but it's never up to the insane to psychoanalyze themselves. When people are in good spirits and listen to my tales, they raise a glass, nod slightly, jerk their heads and mumble some unintelligible affirming drivel about how they "totally agree." Sometimes ( Read more... )

     I hate dating. It's this ridiculous convention we've created to mirror our societies, our interpersonal relationships, our jobs. What do they all have in common? Hope and anxiety. We live our lives, struggling to stay sane in the bustle of a maelstrom of lunacy we call civilization, only for the hope that one day, it will all be better, it ( Read more... )

Every few years or so, I seem to break down and write something so emotional, so weak, and so petty that it almost disgusts me. I have started a few entries where I talk about something to that effect, but I inevitably do not post it, whether from some sort of personal enlightenment that prevents me, in good conscience, from unleashing it ( Read more... )

     I have been neglecting this traditional medium for thought-writing ever since I've gotten back in to using Facebook and other rapid forms of communication. They have allowed me to, in some minor but important way, reconnect with old acquaintances/friends and plant the seeds which might yield delicious, juicy fruits in the months or years to ( Read more... )

     I entered the New Yorker caption contest two weeks week featuring a cartoon of two ancient soldiers holding a blueprint with the Parthenon on it overlooking workers building what was obviously a Stonehenge-esque monument. My caption read "Athena is going to be so pissed ( Read more... )

     I've stumbled across many good thought points today in my online perusals, some of which I'd like to mention here so that I do not forget them. One was motivational, one laden with symptoms of guilt ( Read more... )

     I'm getting increasingly unsettled about a large part of the population being idiots, having the ability to reproduce, doing so, spawning more idiots, and then voting and holding positions of power. Today's good news stories include evolution's perpetual defensive stand and this now-famous story of the 100-0 win of a high school basketball ( Read more... )

     Lately I've been thinking I should have majored in Philosophy. I have been learning a bit about the subject's roots, requisite classes in the major, as well as exposing myself to some of the terminology and methods, and it seems really interesting. It was one of those disciplines which I couldn't imagine a use for, and I still can't. I suppose ( Read more... )

     Living in a world where what you see might or might not be real and the people with whom you talk might or might not be who they say they are or mean what they say is not a world in which I should be living. I'm not sure if it counts as me being too weak or unready to best such a challenge or if it's so entirely below me that I just haven't ( Read more... )

     Isn't it weird how the plural of words like passer-by, mother-in-law, and attorney general are passers-by, mothers-in-law, and attorneys general, but the plural of fuck-up isn't fucks-up, it's fuck-ups.